Fontainebleau American Art Schools
When Music and Architecture meet
The American Art Schools of Fontainebleau celebrated the centenary of the faculty of music in 1921 and will celebrate the centenary of the faculty of fine arts in 2023.
The offer summer programs of the highest quality in music and architecture to over 10,000 promising international students.
Over the years, the faculty has included famous musicians including Maurice Ravel, Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Rubinstein, and Leonard Bernstein, and the conservatory program has influenced many composers such as Aaron Copland, Phillip Glass, and Quincy Jones, among others.
Since 2018, my role has a tutor is to bring together the students of the music and architecture faculties working alongside architects, set designers, curators, sculptors, and photographers as part of the architecture faculty.
The lecture is entitled “When Music and Architecture Meet” and aims at bringing the music and architecture programs together with a historic journey of the architectural evolution of performing arts spaces dedicated to music, opera, and drama.
Centenary of the Fontainebleau American Art Schools - Sébastien Jouan
